Vancouver Sun Columnist: Who Are We To Lecture China, Since We’re Evil, Too?

[Vancouver Sun] Canadians who have poked the dragon in the eye by trying to use the Olympic games as a platform to protest China’s treatment of Tibet or its dismal human rights record have discovered a hard truth about totalitarian regimes — they really don’t tolerate dissent in the way we are used to here.

At the same time, the focus on human rights abuses in China raises the question of whether Canada’s hands are clean enough to allow us to lecture the Chinese government on the sensitive issue.